"Don Barclay (actor) Don Barclay (born Donn Van Tassel Barclay, December 26, 1892 – October 16, 1975) was an American actor, artist and caricaturist whose many roles stretched the period from the Keystone Cops in 1915 to ""Mary Poppins"" in 1964 and whose many paintings and caricatures of celebrities filled establishments worldwide and are archived in the Library of Congress. The more experienced comedian, Don Barclay helped and later became roommates with a rookie actor in Bristol, England named Archie Leach. Barclay and Leach developed a two-man comedy show together in New York. Leach later became better known as Cary"
"criticisms that included ministers, civil servants, the Brabazon Committee and BOAC. Archibald Russell was born in Cinderford, Gloucestershire. He was raised in the Forest of Dean and attended East Dean Grammar School where his father (known as ""the mathemagician"" owing to his facility in complex mental calculation) was headmaster. When he was fifteen the family moved to Bristol and his education continued at Fairfield Grammar School, and then the Engineering faculty of Bristol University where he gained a BSc in automotive engineering. His first job was maintaining buses for the Bristol Tramways & Carriage Company, one of Sir George White's"
"Robin Leach Robin Douglas Leach (29 August 1941 – 24 August 2018) was an English entertainment reporter and writer from London. Beginning his career as a print journalist, first in England and then in the United States, he became best known for hosting the television series ""Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous"" from 1984 to 1995. The show focused on profiling well-known celebrities and their lavish homes, cars and other materialistic details. His voice is often parodied by other actors with his signature phrase, ""champagne wishes and caviar dreams."" Leach was born in London, the son of Violet Victoria (Phillips)"
"Archibald Lush Sir Archibald James Lush (15 September 1900 – 14 April 1976) was a Welsh educator and civil servant. He was educated at Tredegar Grammar School in his hometown and at Jesus College, Oxford. On leaving Oxford, he worked for the Carnegie Trust. He was County Youth Organiser for Monmouthshire from 1940, before serving as Chief Inspector of Schools for the county of Monmouthshire from 1944–64. He was then Chairman of the Welsh Hospital Board and was knighted in the Investiture honours in 1969 for social services to Wales. He was a close friend of Aneurin Bevan and acted"
"something you can actually do to put things right or make the best of those that are wrong."" Born in Hampstead, London, she is the daughter of the novelists Nigel Balchin and Elizabeth Ayrton. She graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge, with honours in 1959. After Cambridge, she attended the London School of Economics, where she received her PhD in psychology (1964) and lectured on child development. Her first research positions included a year in the Home Office Research Unit studying juvenile crime and six years at the Medical Research Council Developmental Research Unit. Leach is a fellow of the British"
"Frederick Leach Frederick Richard Leach (1837-1904) was an English master decorator, mural and stained glass painter based in Cambridge. He worked with the architects George Frederick Bodley and George Gilbert Scott Junior, the designer William Morris and the church craftsman Charles Eamer Kempe on many Victorian Gothic revival churches, Cambridge college interiors and church restorations. He was born in Cambridge, where his father, Richard Hopkins Leach was an artist and craftsman. It is uncertain how he was educated, although he clearly was highly literate and erudite, with a good knowledge of art and literature. At 17 he resolved to use"
"and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London, on the east side of the main entrance path from the north gate. Edmund Leach (British Army officer) Major-General Sir Edmund Leach KCB (28 November 1836 – 7 August 1923) was a British army officer. Edmund Leach was born at Robeston Wathen on 28 November 1836, and educated at Sandhurst. He started as an Ensign in the 50th Foot, and rose to become a Major-General. He was Colonel of the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment from 1904-21. He was appointed KCB in the 1907 Birthday Honours. He married Frances Elizabeth Ince at"
"Lionel Leach Sir Alfred Henry Lionel Leach (3 February 1883 – 26 January 1960), popularly known as Lionel Leach, was a British judge who served as a judge of the Burma High Court from 1933 to 1937, Chief Justice of the Madras High Court from 1937 to 1947 and a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council from 1949 to 1960. Lionel Leach was born in Rochdale the son of barrister Robert Alfred Leach on 3 February 1883. Lionel Leach was called to the bar in 1907. In 1933, Leach was appointed puisne judge of the Rangoon High"
"Hertogh riots. He was appointed by Governor Franklin Gimson. Lionel Leach died in his chambers at Gray's Inn Square on 26 January 1960 at the age of 76. Lionel Leach Sir Alfred Henry Lionel Leach (3 February 1883 – 26 January 1960), popularly known as Lionel Leach, was a British judge who served as a judge of the Burma High Court from 1933 to 1937, Chief Justice of the Madras High Court from 1937 to 1947 and a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council from 1949 to 1960. Lionel Leach was born in Rochdale the son of"
"Earl of Bristol Earl of Bristol is a title that has been created twice in British history. The first creation came in the Peerage of England in 1622 in favour of the politician and diplomat John Digby who served for many years as Ambassador to Spain, and had already been created Baron Digby of Sherborne, in the County of Dorset, in 1618, also in the Peerage of England. Digby was the brother of Sir Robert Digby of Coleshill, Warwickshire, whose son Robert Digby became 1st Baron Digby of Geashill in the Peerage of Ireland in 1620. (See the article Baron"
"Archibald Russell Sir Archibald Russell, CBE, FRS (30 May 1904 – 29 May 1995) was a British aerospace engineer who worked most of his career at the Bristol Aeroplane Company, before becoming managing director of the Filton Division when Bristol merged into British Aircraft Corporation in 1960. He also served as the vice-chairman of the BAC-Sud Aviation Concorde Committee that produced the Concorde, working alongside Morien Morgan. His designs include the Blenheim, Britannia, Type 188 and many others. He was known throughout his career as a perfectionist, as well as his criticism for those who did not measure up –"
"new admissions policy specifically caters to the 'BS' postcode area of Bristol. Among the famous names associated with Bristol in this early period is Paul Dirac, who graduated in 1921 with a degree in engineering, before obtaining a second degree in mathematics in 1923 from Cambridge. For his subsequent pioneering work on quantum mechanics, he was awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics. Later in the 1920s, the H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory was opened by Ernest Rutherford. It has since housed several Nobel Prize winners: Cecil Frank Powell (1950); Hans Albrecht Bethe (1967); and Sir Nevill Francis Mott (1977). The"
"as his political agent for most of his parliamentary life. Archibald Lush Sir Archibald James Lush (15 September 1900 – 14 April 1976) was a Welsh educator and civil servant. He was educated at Tredegar Grammar School in his hometown and at Jesus College, Oxford. On leaving Oxford, he worked for the Carnegie Trust. He was County Youth Organiser for Monmouthshire from 1940, before serving as Chief Inspector of Schools for the county of Monmouthshire from 1944–64. He was then Chairman of the Welsh Hospital Board and was knighted in the Investiture honours in 1969 for social services to Wales."
"William Henry Bristol William Henry Bristol, inventor, manufacturer, educator, and environmentalist, was born in Waterbury, Connecticut on July 5, 1859, the eldest of six children. After graduating from the Stevens Institute of Technology in 1884 with an engineering degree, he returned there in 1886 as an instructor and progressed to become a professor of mathematics in 1899. While at Stevens, he patented products including a steel lacing for industrial belts and a pressure chart recorder. The need to manufacture these products led to the founding of the Bristol Company in 1889 with his brother, Franklin, and his father, Benjamin. By"
"decorated the interior of his house in an elaborate neo-Gothic style. There are now plans to turn this into a centre for the study of the work of the Leach company. Frederick Leach Frederick Richard Leach (1837-1904) was an English master decorator, mural and stained glass painter based in Cambridge. He worked with the architects George Frederick Bodley and George Gilbert Scott Junior, the designer William Morris and the church craftsman Charles Eamer Kempe on many Victorian Gothic revival churches, Cambridge college interiors and church restorations. He was born in Cambridge, where his father, Richard Hopkins Leach was an artist"
"Edward Pemberton Leach General Sir Edward Pemberton Leach (2 April 1847 – 27 April 1913) was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Leach was born in County Londonderry, Ireland on 2 April 1847. He was educated at Highgate School in England. Leach was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1866. He was 31 years old, and a captain in the Corps of Royal Engineers, British Army and with Bengal Sappers and Miners (British Indian Army) during"
"1928. Harold Leach Harold Leach (3 March 1862 – 15 February 1928) was an English cricketer active in the 1880s and 1890s. Born at Rochdale, Lancashire, Leach was a right-handed batsman and right-arm slow bowler who made three appearances in first-class cricket. Educated at Marlborough College, where he played for the college cricket team, Leach made his debut in first-class cricket for Lancashire against Surrey at Old Trafford in 1881, in what was his only appearance for the county. At club level Leach played for Liverpool, and in 1884 he was selected to play for Liverpool and District in a"
"by a review in ""The Baltimore Sun"". Leach died on 24 August 2018 at the age of 76 from complications of a stroke he had while on vacation in Cabo San Lucas on 21 November 2017. His death was announced through a family statement. Leach and ""Lifestyles"" has been referenced and parodied many times in music, TV and films. Robin Leach Robin Douglas Leach (29 August 1941 – 24 August 2018) was an English entertainment reporter and writer from London. Beginning his career as a print journalist, first in England and then in the United States, he became best known"
"Wilford Leach Carson Wilford Leach (August 26, 1929 – June 18, 1988) was an Tony Award-winning American theatre director, set designer, film director, screenwriter, and professor. Leach was born in Petersburg, Virginia on August 26, 1929. A performance of ""Pygmalion"" he saw as a teenager inspired him to work in theatre. After graduating from the College of William & Mary in 1953, Leach went on to earn both a master's degree and a doctorate from the University of Illinois. Leach began teaching at Sarah Lawrence College in 1958. He also taught at the Yale School of Drama during the years"
"Cecil Leach Cecil Leach (29 November 1894 – 4 January 1973) played first-class cricket for Lancashire and Somerset between 1923 and 1928. He was born at Littleborough, Lancashire and died at Nailsea, Somerset. Leach's true identity was discovered in the research for a 2017 book; previously this cricketer had been equated with a different person, Edward Leach Cecil Leach, born 28 November 1896 at Featherstall, Oldham, and as of January 2018 cricket websites retain this conflation. Leach was a professional middle-order or opening batsman and an occasional bowler. It is not known whether he was right- or left-handed. He played"
"Charles Leach Rev. Charles Leach (1 March 1847 – 24 November 1919) was a Congregationalist Minister and Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom. He is notable as the only Member of Parliament to be deprived of his seat after being declared of unsound mind. Leach was born in Illingworth, near Halifax, but moved to the town and grew up in a slum called Ratten Row, where his mother died when he was five. He entered a worsted mill at eight which meant that he also had three hours elementary schooling per day. At fourteen he became apprenticed as a"
"city. His father, Charles Adrien Ladislas Dirac, was an immigrant from Saint-Maurice, Switzerland, who worked in Bristol as a French teacher. His mother, Florence Hannah Dirac, Holten, the daughter of a ship's captain, was born in Cornwall, England, and worked as a librarian at the Bristol Central Library. Paul had a younger sister, Béatrice Isabelle Marguerite, known as Betty, and an older brother, Reginald Charles Félix, known as Felix, who committed suicide in March 1925. Dirac later recalled: ""My parents were terribly distressed. I didn't know they cared so much [...] I never knew that parents were supposed to care"
"Arthur L. Bristol Arthur LeRoy Bristol, Jr. (July 15, 1886 – April 27, 1942), was a Vice Admiral in the United States Navy, who held important commands during World War I and World War II, and was an early aircraft carrier commander. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he entered the United States Naval Academy on September 23, 1902 and graduated with the Class of 1906. After the prescribed two years of sea duty, which he served in the pre-dreadnought USS ""Illinois"" (Battleship No. 7), he received his commission as ensign in 1908. Transferred to ""Mayflower"" in 1909, he remained in"
"Charles Perkins. Bill Leak Desmond Robert ""Bill"" Leak (9 January 1956 – 10 March 2017) was an Australian editorial cartoonist, caricaturist and portraitist. Brought up in Condobolin and Beacon Hill, Sydney, Leak attended the Julian Ashton Art School in the 1970s. His cartoons were first published in 1983 in ""The Bulletin"" and after he drew for ""The Sydney Morning Herald"" until 1994, when he was recruited by News Limited to contribute to ""The Daily Telegraph-Mirror"" and later to ""The Australian"". Leak entered paintings into the Archibald on several occasions, having won the People's Choice Award in 1994 for his portrait"
"published in 1915, the year of his death, ""formed the basis for all subsequent work on medieval and Reformation schooling until the publication of Nicholas Orme.s ""English Schools in the Middle Ages"" in 1973"". However, the same scholar goes on to say that his claims ""were not always sufficiently supported by his sources"". Arthur Francis Leach Arthur Francis Leach (16 March 1851 – 28 September 1915) was an English historian who wrote a number of books on the development of education in England. He has been called ""the father of the history of education in England"". Leach was born in"
"was the brother of jurist and politician Loran L. Lewis. Diocletian Lewis Diocletian Lewis (March 3, 1823 – May 21, 1886), commonly known as Dr. Dio Lewis, was a prominent temperance leader and physical culture advocate who practiced homeopathy and was the inventor of the beanbag. He was born on a farm near Auburn, New York. He left school at 12 to work in a cotton factory. He later worked at a hoe, axe and scythe factory and went back to attending school. He started teaching school at 15. At 18, he organized a school in Lower Sandusky, Ohio (now"
"Arthur Francis Leach Arthur Francis Leach (16 March 1851 – 28 September 1915) was an English historian who wrote a number of books on the development of education in England. He has been called ""the father of the history of education in England"". Leach was born in 1851, the son of Thomas Leach, barrister. He was educated from 1862 at Highgate School, then at Winchester College and won a scholarship to New College, Oxford, where he obtained a first in Classics. He won the Stanhope essay prize in 1872, and from 1874 to 1881 was a fellow of All Souls"
"De Waal noted that Leach did not speak Japanese and had looked at only a narrow range of Japanese ceramics. Bernard Leach Bernard Howell Leach (5 January 1887 – 6 May 1979), was a British studio potter and art teacher. He is regarded as the ""Father of British studio pottery"". Leach was born in Hong Kong. His mother Eleanor (née Sharp) died in childbirth. He spent his first three years in Japan with his father, Andrew Leach, until he moved back to Hong Kong in 1890. Leach attended the Slade School of Fine Art and the London School of Art,"
"match against the touring Australians at Aigburth. He made a third and final first-class appearance in 1891, when playing for Liverpool and District against Yorkshire. He scored a total of 101 runs in his three first-class matches, top-scoring with 46 and averaging 25.25. Leach came from a substantial cricketing family; four brothers (William, Roger, Robert and John) all played first-class cricket, as did his great-nephew Neil Smith. A number of other brothers who did not play first-class cricket were pioneers of cricket in Argentina. Outside of cricket, Leach worked as a stockbroker. He died at Widcombe, Somerset on 15 February"
"Harold Leach Harold Leach (3 March 1862 – 15 February 1928) was an English cricketer active in the 1880s and 1890s. Born at Rochdale, Lancashire, Leach was a right-handed batsman and right-arm slow bowler who made three appearances in first-class cricket. Educated at Marlborough College, where he played for the college cricket team, Leach made his debut in first-class cricket for Lancashire against Surrey at Old Trafford in 1881, in what was his only appearance for the county. At club level Leach played for Liverpool, and in 1884 he was selected to play for Liverpool and District in a first-class"
"president of the Saint Heliers Bowling Club. He served as vice president of the Tamaki Returned Servicemen's Association and president of the Tamaki Orphans' Club. Leach died on 30 October 1949, and he was buried at Purewa Cemetery, Auckland. Edward Leach (bowls) Edward Leach (4 December 1879 – 30 October 1949) was a New Zealand bowls player who represented his country at the 1930 British Empire Games. Born in Walsall, Staffordshire, England, on 4 December 1879, Leach was the son of John and Ann Leach. He became a baker and later emigrated to New Zealand. A member of the Stratford"
"had one son and one daughter. Lorna died in 1984 and Russell married Judy Humphrey in 1986. Archibald Russell died in Angarrack, Cornwall on 29 May 1995, one day short of his 91st birthday. Archibald Russell Sir Archibald Russell, CBE, FRS (30 May 1904 – 29 May 1995) was a British aerospace engineer who worked most of his career at the Bristol Aeroplane Company, before becoming managing director of the Filton Division when Bristol merged into British Aircraft Corporation in 1960. He also served as the vice-chairman of the BAC-Sud Aviation Concorde Committee that produced the Concorde, working alongside Morien"
"Byron Temple Byron Temple (1933–2002) was an American potter. Temple learned to throw on the wheel at Ball State University as an undergrad in his native Indiana. After college and serving in the U.S. Army, Temple discovered ""A Potter's Book"", written by the English potter, Bernard Leach, considered by many to be the grandfather of modern hand thrown functional studio pottery. This inspiring book motivated Temple to write Leach asking if he could apprentice with him at Leach’s St. Ives Pottery in Cornwall, England. The two happened to meet while Leach was giving a workshop in the United States, and"